What Happened in April 1992

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• Apr 1 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned
• Apr 1 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs probation
• Apr 1 NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history; 10 day action earns large playoff bonus increase, more control over licensing of their likenesses and changes to free agency system

• Apr 1 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
• Apr 1 Sheffield Shield Men's Cricket Final, Perth: West Australia beats NSW by 44 runs; Justin Langer 149
• Apr 1 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
• Apr 2 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
• Apr 2 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female prime minister, resigns

• Apr 2 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
• Apr 3 1st exhibition game at Camden Field - Orioles beat NY Mets
• Apr 4 146th Grand National: 14/1 shot Party Politics, ridden by Welsh jockey Carl Llewellyn wins by 2½ lengths from Romany King
• Apr 4 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad

• Apr 4 Sali Berisha becomes president and Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
• Apr 5 "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
• Apr 5 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Kentucky, 78-62; Cardinal guard Molly Goodenbour MOP
• Apr 5 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea

• Apr 5 Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare
• Apr 5 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
• Apr 5 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

• Apr 6 1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore, Maryland - Orioles beat Cleveland Indians 2-0
• Apr 6 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan, 71-51; back-to-back titles for Blue Devils and coach Mike Krzyzewski
• Apr 6 A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
• Apr 6 British Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses

• Apr 6 Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
• Apr 6 Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
• Apr 6 US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography

• Apr 7 Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
• Apr 8 "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 performances
• Apr 8 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" publishes its final issue
• Apr 9 Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman

• Apr 9 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
• Apr 9 US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of 8 out of 10 drug and racketeering charges
• Apr 9 William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
• Apr 10 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
• Apr 10 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at The Hague, Netherlands
• Apr 10 NHL strike ends after 10 days
• Apr 11 BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
• Apr 11 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
• Apr 11 MLB Cleveland Indians set team record for long game loss to Boston Red Sox (19 innings - 6½ hr)
• Apr 12 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Pistons 72, NY Knicks 61

• Apr 12 Earthquake rocks Germany
• Apr 12 Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France
• Apr 12 Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
• Apr 12 MLB Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Young no-hits Cleveland Indians, but loses 2-1
• Apr 12 NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962

• Apr 12 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
• Apr 13 "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 performances
• Apr 13 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
• Apr 13 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Sacramento, Providence, Denver, Dallas, and Grand Rapids
• Apr 13 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
• Apr 13 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
• Apr 13 Lou Carnesecca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
• Apr 13 Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
• Apr 14 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft

• Apr 14 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
• Apr 14 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
• Apr 15 Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion

• Apr 15 Lincoln Hospital in Bronx. New York loses its accreditation

• Apr 15 The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

• Apr 16 "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
• Apr 16 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
• Apr 16 Afghan president Najibullah resigns
• Apr 16 NY Rangers win team record 50th game
• Apr 16 The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
• Apr 18 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
• Apr 19 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 performances

• Apr 20 100th episode of American sitcom "Murphy Brown" airs
• Apr 20 96th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya repeats in 2:08:14 for his 3rd title; Olga Markova first Russian women's champion in 2:23:43

• Apr 20 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
• Apr 20 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse

• Apr 21 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill (a tidal strait separating Staten Island, New York City from mainland New Jersey, USA)
• Apr 21 Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the California Gas Chamber for 3 murders
• Apr 22 6.1 earthquake under the Little San Bernadino Mountains, near Joshua Tree, California
• Apr 22 Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara, Mexico
• Apr 22 Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
• Apr 23 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
• Apr 23 Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington, D.C.) let out of prison
• Apr 23 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
• Apr 24 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances

• Apr 24 Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
• Apr 25 "Shimada" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances

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• Apr 3 Damien Williams, American NFL player (Atlanta Falcons), born in San Diego, California

• Apr 4 Alexa Nikolas, American actress (Zoey 101), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Apr 7 Kaitlan Collins, American TV journalist (CNN "The Source"), born in Prattville, Alabama
• Apr 9 Mikaela Davis, American rock harpist and singer-songwriter (Southern Star), born in Rochester, New York

• Apr 12 Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor (Gladiator), born in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy
• Apr 13 Emma Degerstedt, American actress, born in Long Beach, California
• Apr 13 Jett Travolta, son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2009)
• Apr 13 Mohammad Amir, Pakistani cricket bowler (5-year ban for spot-fixing), born in Changa Bangial, Pakistan
• Apr 15 Amy Diamond [Deasismont], Swedish singer ("What's In It For Me"), born in Norrköping, Sweden
• Apr 16 Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg, born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
• Apr 18 Chloe Bennet [Chloé Wang], Chinese-American actress (Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Apr 18 Jēkabs Jančevskis, Latvian pianist, choral and orchestral composer (When; Adveniat Regnum), and teacher, born in Riga, Latvia
• Apr 24 Jack Quaid, American actor (The Boys), born in Los Angeles, California
• Apr 24 Joe Keery, American actor (Stranger Things), and rock musician (Post Animal; Djo), born in Newburyport, Massachusetts
• Apr 24 Pavel Krotov, Russian freestyle skier (World C'ship gold mixed team aerials 2021), born in Yaroslavl, Russia (d. 2021)
• Apr 24 Sean Rademaker, American actor (Kirkland Harrison-Another World), born in Washington, D.C.
• Apr 26 Aaron Judge, American MLB baseball outfielder, 2017-present, AL Rookie of the Year, 4X All-Star, 2X AL homerun leader (New York Yankees), born in Linden, California

• Apr 4 John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
• Apr 5 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka

• Apr 11 Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 Kimberly Payne

• Apr 23 British Princess Anne (the Princess Royal) and her 1st husband Captain Mark Phillips divorce after 19 years

• Apr 1 Konstantin Sergeyev, Russian ballet dancer and director of the Kirov Ballet (Swan Lake), dies at 82 [1]
• Apr 1 Nigel Preston, British drummer (The Cult), dies of a drug overdose at 28
• Apr 2 Juanito, Spanish soccer forward (34 caps; Real Madrid 284 games, 85 goals), dies in car crash at 37
• Apr 2 Paula Kelly, American big band singer (The Modernaires), dies at 72 [1]
• Apr 2 Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
• Apr 3 (Lloyd) "Slim" Andrews, American actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), comic, and singer-songwriter, dies at 85 [1]
• Apr 3 Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano - Summer Storm), dies at 64
• Apr 3 Margaret Barker, American actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
• Apr 4 Arthur Russell, American experimental classical-pop fusion cellist, and composer, dies of AIDS at 40
• Apr 4 Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
• Apr 4 Rodolfo Holzmann, Peruvian composer, dies at 81
• Apr 4 Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-American chess grandmaster (World C'ship 3rd 1948; 8 x US C'ship gold), dies of a heart attack at 80
• Apr 4 Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
• Apr 5 Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band bandleader, dies at 65

• Apr 6 Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
• Apr 7 Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
• Apr 7 Clovis Ruffin, American fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
• Apr 8 Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist (1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovered chemotherapeutic agents including antihistamines0, dies at 85
• Apr 8 Luc-Andre Marcel, French composer, dies at 73
• Apr 8 Nelson Olmsted [or Olmstead], American voice actor (Sleep No More), dies at 78
• Apr 9 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
• Apr 9 Ruth Hammond, American Broadway actress, dies in her sleep at 96
• Apr 10 Cecil "Cec" Linder, Polish-Canadian actor (Goldfinger, Quatermass and the Pit), dies at 71
• Apr 10 Ken Ward, dies at 37
• Apr 10 Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, (1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), dies at 71

• Apr 11 Adele Dixon, British stage and screen actress and singer (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
• Apr 11 Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, dies of a brain tumor at 71
• Apr 11 Eve Merriam [Moskovitz], American writer and poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of liver cancer at 75
• Apr 11 James Brown, American actor (Objective, Burma!; The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin -"Rip"), dies of lung cancer at 72
• Apr 11 Robert Houben, Belgian politician (Minister of Public Health, 1958), dies at 86
• Apr 12 Joe Medwick, American R&B singer, and songwriter ("Further On Up The Road"), dies at 61
• Apr 13 Brian Oulton, English character actor, dies at 84
• Apr 13 Stuart Surridge, English cricketer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
• Apr 13 Wallace Stegner, American novelist (Pulitzer Prize 1972 for Angle of Repose), dies after a car accident at 84
• Apr 14 David Miller, American film director (Billy the Kid), dies of cancer at 82
• Apr 14 Sammy Price, American boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader, dies at 83
• Apr 16 Andy Russell, American drummer and vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
• Apr 16 Frank Killmond, dies at 58
• Apr 16 Neville Brand, American soldier and actor (DOA, Love Me Tender), dies of emphysema at 71
• Apr 17 Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt, American jazz and session saxophonist and clarinetist (Dorsey Brothers; Benny Goodman; Lawrence Wlek), dies at 80
• Apr 17 Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure
• Apr 19 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
• Apr 19 Deacon Lunchbox [Timothy Tyson Ruttenber], American poet and performance artist, dies in car crash with a drunk driver at 41
• Apr 19 Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
• Apr 19 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
• Apr 19 Rob Clayton, American alternative rock drummer (The Jody Grind), dies in car crash with a drunk driver at 22
• Apr 19 Robert Hayes, American alternative rock bassist (The Jody Grind), dies in car crash with a drunk driver at 24
• Apr 20 Benny Hill [Alfred Hawthorn Hill], British comedian (The Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 68
• Apr 20 Johnny Shines, American delta blues singer and guitarist, dies at 76
• Apr 20 Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 69
• Apr 21 Robert Harris, American criminal and murderer, executed in a gas chamber at 39 in San Quentin State Prison, California
• Apr 21 Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
• Apr 22 Billy Wayne White, American murderer, executed in Texas at 34
• Apr 22 Youcca Troubatzkoy, American actress (Flower of the Night), dies at 86
• Apr 23 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
• Apr 23 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder, Agantuk), dies at 70
• Apr 23 Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
• Apr 25 Brian MacLeod, Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist (Chilliwack), dies of cancer at 39
• Apr 25 Dany Tuijnman, Dutch politician (Minister of Transport and Water Management), dies at 77
• Apr 25 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
• Apr 25 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese pop musician dies of pulmonary edema at 26
• Apr 26 Alberta Vaughn, American actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
• Apr 26 Clyde Hartley, American entertainer, dies at 68
• Apr 27 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon; St Francois d'Assise), dies at 83
• Apr 27 Sol K. Bright, Hawaiian steel-guitar player, singer (Hollywaiians), and songwriter ("Hawaiian Cowboy"), dies at 72
• Apr 28 Francis Bacon, Irish-British abstract painter (Study for a Pope), dies at 82
• Apr 28 Iceberg Slim [Robert Beck], African-American writer, dies at 73
• Apr 29 Mae Clarke [Violet Mary Klotz], American actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge), dies at 81
• Apr 30 Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies